MKNAOMI was the code name for a joint Department of Defense/CIA research program lasting from the 1950s through the 1970s. Unclassified information about the MKNAOMI program and the related Special Operations Division is scarce. It is a generally reported to be a successor to the MKDELTA project and to have focused on biological projects including biological warfare agents - specifically, to store materials that could either incapacitate or kill a test subject and to develop devices for the diffusion of such materials.

MKNAOMI features prominently in many conspiracy theories. The following assertions about MKNAOMI activities have been reported but not independently confirmed:

• AIDS was created by MKNAOMI
• MKNAOMI was one of the CIA's mind control projects and sought to use biological agents to create a reliable "programmable" assassin
• A prominent researcher for the project was drugged and then murdered when he began to have misgivings about his work
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was studied by MKNAOMI

See also

• other CIA cryptonyms
• MKULTRA
• MKDELTA
• Project CHATTER
• Project BLUEBIRD
• Project ARTICHOKE
• Project Monarch

External references

• Baltimore Sun article
• Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse, L Horowitz & J Barber